Oral Language Teaching Resources

Help your students with oral language development this school year with activities, worksheets and more created by teachers to support student's speaking skills.

With activities developed by the teachers of the Teach Starter team to align to Common Core curriculum and editable resources you can adapt to suit your students' needs, this collection has everything you need to help students become adept communicators!

Explore basic conversational skills, teaching your students how to greet one another and how to carry on back-and-forth conversations. Cover the ability to express needs and wants and more with the help of resources designed to build the oral language foundation students need to move on to become readers and writers.

How to Build Students' Oral Language Skills

1. Add a Daily Read Aloud to Your Class Schedule — You never get too old to listen to a book read out loud, and listening to you read a book out loud is especially valuable for those bilingual learners who need to listen to a fluent reader!
2. Incorporate Reader's Theater. Reader's theater can help students with not just their spoken language skills but non-verbal communication as well, giving them a chance to practice expressing a wide range of emotions through their voice and body language.